machines, has coal and materials, the workers (1,300 workers) have not scattered. It would be particularly important to preserve such a factory.

I request that you urgently discuss whether it is possible to provide at least emergency food aid to the workers of this factory.

I request that you telephone me the answer—150.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

First published in 1933

in Lenin Collection XXIV

Printed from the manuscript